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Consumer Reports

For the avid cook, there are few more valuable tools than a solid and dependable knife—and taking optimal care of one is of utmost importance. This double-sided sharpening stone comes with both a coarse and a fine side, which provides exceptional sharpening and an exceptionally sharp edge via the fine side. CR editor Paul Hope found that the Sharp Pebble Whetstone put an edge on the knives that none of the electric or manual sharpeners could match, making it a top choice for cooks who are serious about sharp blades.For more options: Best Knife Sharpeners 

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 This whetstone gets my blades back to razor sharp quality in a matter of minutes and gives me a sharp blade wherever I go. The dual sided grit is what really drew me to this stone. As the 1000 grit cleans up the edge and gets any major imperfections out and the 6000 grit gives me that razor sharp edge. Stand it comes in is nice too, keeps it in place while working the blade, you won't regret the purchase

 I'm a carpenter avid outdoorsman so in general I like to keep a knife on me wherever I go as you find yourself in need of one more often than not. I beat on my knives hard, regularly using them on the job site to cut miscellaneous day to day material that oftentimes dulls the blade into becoming a glorified butter knife. This whetstone gets my blades back to razor sharp quality in a matter of minutes and gives me a sharp blade wherever I go. The dual sided grit is what really drew me to this stone

Sharp Pebble Premium Whetstone Knife Sharpening Stone 2 Side Grit 1000//6000 review

 With 4 different grits, patience and following pre and post instructions, this should last years!

Guide only fits blades over 6"

I bought this product because I wanted to develop my skills for sharpening my kitchen knives. If you’re knives are very dull then I would suggest getting a quarter grit such as 400. I think this particular product is more for someone who has maintained their knives and the 1000 grit works well. In my case I had to buy a stone that had 400 grit on one side and 1000 grit on the other

 I think this particular product is more for someone who has maintained their knives and the 1000 grit works well. In my case I had to buy a stone that had 400 grit on one side and 1000 grit on the other. You will need to watch several online videos to develop a technique. I think my first attempt at sharpening was successful and I will continue with it

 You will need to watch several online videos to develop a technique. I think my first attempt at sharpening was successful and I will continue with it. It worked way better than trying to use any type of drag through sharpener

Good for beginners

 Had the tomato ready for testing. Impact of the sharpener was immediate. I could literally see a small nick in one of our paring knives and after working the stone it was gone and sliced the tomato like a hot knife through butter. Nice product packaging as well

We purchased a set of Wustof knives several years ago and have noticed the dullness despite trying a variety of cheap sharpeners. After paying $15 to get one knife sharpened I divided it was time to take care of our knife investment. I got the sharpener today and immediately set to work sharpening all of our knives. I had watched two YT videos so felt comfortable on how to use the sharpener right out of the box

 I got the sharpener today and immediately set to work sharpening all of our knives. I had watched two YT videos so felt comfortable on how to use the sharpener right out of the box. Had the tomato ready for testing. Impact of the sharpener was immediate

Knife investment

 The one recommended here is the best for your typical kitchen blade use. The instruction manual, actually a one-sided page, describes how to use the stone, however as a training professional I would recommend some photos or drawings to make the steps clearer. Epicurious' YouTube channel has a very good demo on sharpening using this stone: "The Best Way to Sharpen & Clean Knives." The included angle guide that holds the blade at the proper angle to the stone is good for beginners, but is small enough to easily use

 I downloaded it and discovered that the link is actually to a no-cost subscription to an on-going newsletter, with a link to download the actual ebook. Nonetheless, the content is useful; for example, they revealed an interesting tip to help the sharpening process which I have not yet tried but look forward to doing so. I downloaded it and discovered that the link is actually to a no-cost subscription to an on-going newsletter, with a link to download the actual ebook. Nonetheless, the content is useful; for example, they revealed an interesting tip to help the sharpening process which I have not yet tried but look forward to doing so

 The one recommended here is the best for your typical kitchen blade use. The instruction manual, actually a one-sided page, describes how to use the stone, however as a training professional I would recommend some photos or drawings to make the steps clearer. Epicurious' YouTube channel has a very good demo on sharpening using this stone: "The Best Way to Sharpen & Clean Knives." The included angle guide that holds the blade at the proper angle to the stone is good for beginners but is small enough to easily use

Effective and simple to use

 Also, make sure you dry everything well before storing again as the wooden holder will mildew (that was not a pleasant clean up). But overall, a good value for keeping your kitchen knives about as sharp as they can be.

Good budget option

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Sharp Pebble Premium Whetstone Knife Sharpening Stone Review - Consumer Reports

What we like: Very effective sharpening, allows you to set any angle for sharpening, easy to use, includes coarse and fine stones.

What we don't like: 8-inch chef's knives feel a bit large in the tool, more complicated than most sharpeners to use.

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If you are willing to try, look into the Work Sharp Precision Adjust sharpener. It’s a relatively budget friendly sharpening setup, and with some practice/research, sharping 20CV will be no problem

I recently bought a brand new Benchmade Griptillian in 20CV, and the blade edge just completely sucks. The edge is so bad, that I can hardly use it. I couldn't slice a rubber hose with it, which was its first task. It struggles to break down boxes. I couldnt slice the candle wax off of a fancy beer with it last weekend, and this morning I couldn't cut thin rope that was tightly affixed across a package.

There are no local knife sharpeners in my town. I don't own any stones, nor know how to use them, and honestly don't have time to undertake learning that at the moment.  I know I can send it back to Benchmade and have them sharpen it, but honestly, I'm seeing the product of them sharpening it right now, in its brand new out of box condition -- and it sucks.

So, is there anyone on here who runs a reputable sharpening biz? Is there a product I could buy that is dummy proof and will work on 20CV without breaking the bank?

I really like the look and feel of the knife. The blade is perfectly centered, there's no play in it, and I really enjoy everything about it, other than its complete lack of an edge.

<div class="md"><p>I recently bought a brand new Benchmade Griptillian in 20CV, and the blade edge just completely sucks. The edge is so bad, that I can hardly use it. I couldn&#39;t slice a rubber hose with it, which was its first task. It struggles to break down boxes. I couldnt slice the candle wax off of a fancy beer with it last weekend, and this morning I couldn&#39;t cut thin rope that was tightly affixed across a package.</p>

<p>There are no local knife sharpeners in my town. I don&#39;t own any stones, nor know how to use them, and honestly don&#39;t have time to undertake learning that at the moment.  I know I can send it back to Benchmade and have them sharpen it, but honestly, I&#39;m seeing the product of them sharpening it right now, in its brand new out of box condition -- and it sucks.</p>

<p>So, is there anyone on here who runs a reputable sharpening biz? Is there a product I could buy that is dummy proof and will work on 20CV without breaking the bank?</p>

<p>I really like the look and feel of the knife. The blade is perfectly centered, there&#39;s no play in it, and I really enjoy everything about it, other than its complete lack of an edge.</p>
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How to sharpen 20CV

To be clear - this is review is exclusively just my own personal experience with the precision elite setup, and I have no doubt the vast majority of people have no issues with this product granting they aren't primarily sharpening higher-end kitchen blades and aren't prone to stressing over perfection in achieving a mirror finish.  The design itself is great in most ways - it's not made from cheap garbage plastic, the sharpening plates are stellar, and the tri-rod design is substantially better than any other fixed grit sharpener I've seen or used.  Unfortunately there were a few problems with my unit that caused enough of a headache that made this a poor purchase in my case.  I'll be the first to admit I'm far from a grandmaster blade sharpener in any sense, if I were I wouldn't've needed to buy a fancy honing guide - but I've got roughly 5 years under my belt of maintaining primary and secondary chisel bevels to a preferred 20k grit before stropping on 60k compound, so I'm familiar with how it's done

 It might've been the intended use, but it may also prevent me from returning or getting a full refund as well.  I'm somewhat disappointed they didn't include a "blank" tri-rod that would allow you to either plate higher grit plates or stones, possibly a flat side for those who like to use adhesive backed SiC with grits around 2k-20k. There's even a fourth tri-rod slot that's empty when shipped.  It's also somewhat unfortunate that the company hasn't designed a secondary adjustment column that would fit chisels in an appropriate way, and shift the angle adjustment up to 25 or 30-45°

 There's even a fourth tri-rod slot that's empty when shipped.  It's also somewhat unfortunate that the company hasn't designed a secondary adjustment column that would fit chisels in an appropriate way, and shift the angle adjustment up to 25 or 30-45°. Granted, if they kept the magnetic v-clamp base they'd need to include some sort of tension knob to firmly secure it after it's in place.  If I had a unit like this that supported a chisel when I first started out woodworking, I'd wager I'd have saved literal days in time spent trying to halfhazardly reshape the bevel for a chisel I'd dropped on the floor for the second time that day like a dingus

 (Almost always with a honing guide, to be transparent. Excluding strop touch ups.)  In regards to sharpening kitchen blades, the base of the unit isn't weighted at all. Using my (approx

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 So here we have a bunch of different grits Which we will get into in a second. And then here's the actual sharpener itself. I really like the use of magnets for that Now when it comes to the actual sharpening we've got a few different choices to pick from here We can start at 220 these actually rotate so then we can go up to 320 and then on this one goes up to 400 They have this little like ball joint on here and this piece of metal actually goes right up inside the stand And then there's a magnet up top here so you just slip that in and then that magnet locks that into place Now typically on the high-end professional sharpeners that I have I want to basically Make a nice long path from the back of the blade all the way out to the tip You can also do it in segments though because we have this pretty pronounced belly here. It's kind of short I'm going to start on 400 and just sort of work this back and forth Now I'm noticing that I'm not actually hitting that sharpie edge on here So what I'm going to do is adjust the angle of this to adjust the angle You can go from 30 all the way down to 100 Adjust the angle you can go from 30 all the way down to 15 probably even a little bit higher and lower Probably going to sharpen this at about a 20 degree angle so I'm going to twist this down That will change the angle now let's try this again Now that is a pretty good angle I don't know if you guys can tell but I've gotten rid of Most of that sharpie there's still a little bit on the tip there so I will work on that And now that I know that my angle is set I can actually sharpen this thing the way that I normally would I should note that I'm really not pushing down on this at all

 It's popping a few hairs there I think this kit is going to be great for anyone like myself who's just a knife enthusiast and you want to have a decent Edge on your blade, but you don't need like a eight hundred dollar professional sharpening system I have something like that And now that I have this I don't even really use it puts a great edge on there if you're not doing it in front Of a camera with a bunch of stuff in your way You can fine tune them even more and get these knives insanely sharp So if you have any questions on it, let me know in the comments down below I'll try to answer anything as best as possible I'll also leave some links in the description where you can pick one of these up on amazon right now starting at forty nine dollars All the way up to I believe 119 which is for the full Elite kit which you just saw me use so that's all for today if you're new here consider clicking subscribe and make new videos every week As always thanks for watching. I'll talk to you in the next one

 I really like the use of magnets for that Now when it comes to the actual sharpening we've got a few different choices to pick from here We can start at 220 these actually rotate so then we can go up to 320 and then on this one goes up to 400 They have this little like ball joint on here and this piece of metal actually goes right up inside the stand And then there's a magnet up top here so you just slip that in and then that magnet locks that into place Now typically on the high-end professional sharpeners that I have I want to basically Make a nice long path from the back of the blade all the way out to the tip You can also do it in segments though because we have this pretty pronounced belly here. It's kind of short I'm going to start on 400 and just sort of work this back and forth Now I'm noticing that I'm not actually hitting that sharpie edge on here So what I'm going to do is adjust the angle of this to adjust the angle You can go from 30 all the way down to 100 Adjust the angle you can go from 30 all the way down to 15 probably even a little bit higher and lower Probably going to sharpen this at about a 20 degree angle so I'm going to twist this down That will change the angle now let's try this again Now that is a pretty good angle I don't know if you guys can tell but I've gotten rid of Most of that sharpie there's still a little bit on the tip there so I will work on that And now that I know that my angle is set I can actually sharpen this thing the way that I normally would I should note that I'm really not pushing down on this at all. I'm not really using much pressure I'm just pinching the top here and then working the edge of the blade just to make a little bit of a burr Now that I've got a decent burr on there push the button in the back and Spin this thing around now I can work on the other side Now I'm noticing that this 400 grit is still pretty rough because I typically don't sharpen down this gritty So the more you use these stones the more they will break in and the better they will get over time So right now this is a little bit rough but we'll make it work Really want to work on that tip make sure everything is nice and even all the way through that belly And now I can alternate sides Doing about 10 passes right now And that should be plenty for the 400 grit Now I'm going to move right up to 600 grit snap that into place Make sure we are on 600. I'm going to flip this again and continue You really want to make sure you get towards the back of the blade as well Widening the edge just a little bit and it's all the way down I'm widening the edge just a little bit and it's already looking a heck of a lot better Now if I rotate this we can move right up to 800 You can already tell that edge is shining through now Definitely hard to tell on video, but I'll give you guys a close-up once we're done Now also on this same stone we have ceramic Flip this and we're going to start to work almost a mirror edge on here The higher in grits you go the more you will notice that the stones start to just glide across there It's a good indication that you are sharpening the way you should be And again, I'm doing like little to no effort

My Favorite Knife Sharpener | Work Sharp Precision Adjust Elite

 This one I was batoning with the other day so it is quite dull so again we're just going to place this in the blade clamp and get it as parallel as we can get it. There we go. Pop that in here. Now I am going to start maybe on a 600 on this one, I don't need to go super course on this one so I'm going to go start with a 600 and see what we get

 There's also a spring button in the back here so that allows you to press that and rotate your knife around to work on the other side. And then you have the tri-bracive sharpening rod. So there's a sharpening rod. You have rubber stoppers here that you can adjust and then you have three different sharpening surfaces here

Worksharp Precision Adjust Knife Sharpener Review

 It looks like it would be very awkward and I too was concerned that a tiny slip could end up with an ER visit for stitches. When holding the handle, there is plenty of room between your hand and the blade to feel safe while sharpening. You would almost have to be intentionally pointing your fingers downward to contact the blade during the push stroke. If your hands get so tired that your fingers are hanging down like that, you need to take a break anyway

 You will have to either hold the sharpener base or the knife handle while using it. I'm not sure why you would need to control the blade when it is clamped into the system, or even what you would do to control it other than hold onto the sharpener base or the knife handle.*****  "2) I'm a little concerned with the direction of travel for the stone being engineered into the edge of the blade with no practical guard on a small curved top stone assembly. This shows very poor engineering controls for safety and would be an OSHA violation in any industrial environment

 I sharpen on a mat so I can't speak to whether or not a minimal amount of dust will make them slippery on a table but on the mat it was not an issue. This is definitely not a one handed sharpener. You will have to either hold the sharpener base or the knife handle while using it. I'm not sure why you would need to control the blade when it is clamped into the system, or even what you would do to control it other than hold onto the sharpener base or the knife handle

 I bought this early Feb 2021 and before reading the review, I was certain that it was going to be missing pieces or some other failed QC. This is not a knock on worksharp's QC, it's because I couldn't imagine anyone that has put hands on the device and used it to sharpen a knife giving it a one star review.  Let's get started. I'm going to copy his numbered complain below in quotes " and then I will follow up my comment starting and ending with 5 stars *****  "1) Base does not have enough grip to keep it from sliding around on the work surface unless you hold it down with one hand

I'm going to do something a little different and address the 1 star review

 In my previous video, I said that the 600 didn't quite feel like a 600. It felt like a higher grip than that. Yet I wanted a different, I would have liked to have a stone in between the 600 and the ceramic, because I didn't feel like the ceramic, it wasn't able to get out all the scratches without a long, long time. You have to spend a lot of time on the ceramic stone to get it to be polished, basically

 I'm trying to get the grit pattern nice and flat like that. I'm trying to get the grit pattern nice and flat like that, nice and consistent. Now here's another, this is a mirror edge, but this one has been used since I sharpened it. But this is basically what I'm trying to get with that ceramic

 If you have a stropping compound system that does that, you can get it really nice and consistent because you can just strop basically some of the scratch pattern away. But I do think this system is very good. I do think that it will work for a lot of people. You just gotta be careful, like I said, with the movement and know that your stones aren't gonna last a very long time

 I do think that it will work for a lot of people. You just gotta be careful, like I said, with the movement and know that your stones aren't gonna last a very long time. You will get, I'm imagining that if you're not doing a bunch of reprofiling and you're just sharpening the same angle that's on the blade, you could probably get about 50 sharpening's out of it altogether, which, and then like that, you know, that's difficult to say too. I don't know if you'll get quite that many because it depends on your pressure, you know, the steel of the knives you're sharpening

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